How does a Harvard research team’s wound-healing bandage strengthen our belief in God’s loving care for us – even in the womb?

THE STORY

Harvard scientists have developed an active wound dressing that is similar to a band-aid but that goes beyond merely protecting the wound; it speeds up its healing. According to a paper published July 24, 2019 the “bio-inspired mechanically active adhesive dressings accelerate wound closure.” The Harvard team’s lead researcher, bio-engineering Professor David Mooney said that the team was inspired by a healing quality of the skin of a human fetus which is “able to heal itself completely, without forming scar tissue. The embryonic skin cells around a wound produce fibers. . . that contract to draw the wound edges together, like a drawstring bag being pulled closed.”¹

1. “Bioinspired Wound Dressing Contracts In Response To Body Heat”, Lindsay Brownell, The Harvard Gazette, July 24, 2019

SOMETHING TO PONDER
Human Life is so marvelous and complex, even in the fetus’ protection from germs. Who thought of that? Only a God who wants nothing more than for us to survive and thrive.

God thought so much of each life to add this protection to the young fetus. Are we humans as protective of the individual from conception to natural death? Think about this and talk about this with family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and co-students, especially voters and scientists.

LET US PRAY
Paraphrase of portions of Psalm 139

O LORD, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
. . .
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
They cannot be numbered
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
~ New Living Translation